About us

Light plays an increasingly important role in the technology around us: long-distance fibre-optic networks are now the backbone of our telecommunications infrastructure; optical tweezers allow researchers to manipulate individual biological cells under the microscope; and computer processors could one day be using light circuits integrated with electronics in a new generation of semiconductor chip.

Optical Futures is a website which highlights the advances and innovations in the science of optics and photonics. From their beginnings in the research laboratory to their adoption and development by industry, we demonstrate that solutions involving light truly are the way of the future.